gyatt

Proper noun

God (usually uncountable, plural Gods)

1. (usually) The first deity of various theistic religions, and the only deity in monotheism.
   • Dawn believes in God, but Willow believes in gods and goddesses.
   1. (usually, Trinitarian Christianity) God the Father as distinguished from Jesus Christ, God the Son.
      • God sent Jesus to earth to be the King of the Jews; that is, the one to tell them what they should do. […] I will tell you why God let Jesus die upon the cross.1899, The Sunday School Journal, page 378
2. (usually) The single male deity of various bitheistic or duotheistic religions.
   • The ancients represented this fundamental duality mythologically as God and Goddess. When Mystery looks at itself, God looks at Goddess.2001, Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Lost Goddess, page 133
3. (usually) The transcendent principle, for example the ultimate cause or prime mover, often not considered as a person.
   • God (the great everlasting infinite First Cause from whom all things in heaven and earth proceed) [translating Chinese 道] can neither be defined nor named.1895, “The Tâo-Tĭh-King, or Thoughts on the Nature and Manifestations of God”, in G. G. Alexander, transl., Lâo-Tsze the Great Thinker […], page 55

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